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The National Institutes of Health headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. (Wesley Lapointe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump is now targeting science itself

Chauncey DeVega

MAGA political loyalists, not researchers or experts, could soon decide what counts as legitimate knowledge

Lettuce, a common source of Cyclospora cayetanensis infection. (ullstein bild / Getty Images)

MAHA's diarrhea outbreak problem

Troy Farah

A rash of cyclospora infections is sending thousands to the bathroom. Experts say this was all predictable

Roswell Encina is surrounded by masked members of the Patriot Front, a white supremacist group (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

My subway ride with white supremacists

Roswell Encina

Surrounded by masked Patriot Front members on the DC Metro, I considered what it means to be an American

"Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story" (HBO)

The sex ed icon who won't go quietly

Coleman Spilde

In "Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story," the sex-positive cable TV siren makes the case for aging loudly and proudly

GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Where's Mitch?" exposes media failures

Brian Karem

The lack of hard news about the Kentucky senator's condition shows the sad state of contemporary journalism

Life-size replica of Noah's Ark at the Ark Encounter historically themed attraction near Williamstown, Kentucky. (Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

MAGA still says T. Rex rode Noah’s ark

Amanda Marcotte

Kentucky's Ark Encounter turns 10, and its founder Ken Ham is as bitter as ever

The View’s Season 28 co-hosts Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg. (L-R) (Illustration by Salon / ABC / JEFF LIPSKY)

Trump’s "View" fight could backfire

Russell Payne

Leaning on liberal media sets a precedent conservative media can’t abide

Bonnie Tyler (Jakubaszek/Redferns/Getty Images)

Bonnie Tyler's anthems will live forever

Coleman Spilde

During her five-decade career, Tyler's songs soundtracked both silver-screen hits and the movies of our lives

Joe Mitchell, second from right, during Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 21, 2025. (Photo by Olivier Touron / AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-lobbyist Republican used lobbyists

Russell Payne

Joe Mitchell, an Iowa Republican, campaigns against lobbyists, only after his trade org spent $75,000 on them

Singer Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs attend Game Three between the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals on May 23, 2026. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

Taylor, Travis and the cone of silence

Andi Zeisler

Fans and haters alike are flummoxed by the pop star’s insistence on post-nuptial privacy

Graham Platner ( Laura Brett/Getty Images)

The working-class Dems beyond Platner

Jason Kyle Howard

Working-class candidates like Minnesota's Kaela Berg and Montana's Sam Forstag are focusing on blue-collar issues

eople march to honor Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on July 08, 2026 in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Houston wants justice over ICE shooting

Ayden Runnels, Stephen Simpson - The Texas Tribune

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s family raised doubts about ICE’s description of events

Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov and Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander in "Heated Rivalry" (Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max)

Why the Emmys snubbed your favorite show

Melanie McFarland

Major industry award pageants rarely take our feelings into account, but Emmy voters are predictable in some ways

Donald Trump Jr. serves a spokesman and marketing consultant for the mail-order company GrabaGun (Romain Maurice/Getty Images)

Trump family grift now extends to guns

Heather Digby Parton

As the administration rolls back gun safety measures, Donald Trump Jr. is a beneficiary

Donald Trump | The Supreme Court of the United States building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS helps Trump turn losses into wins

Chauncey DeVega

Birthright citizenship survived this round. But Trump's latest successes show that the fight is far from over

A data center on July 24, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio spans 256,000 square feet with 50 MW of power across three data halls. (Photo by Eli Hiller/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The fight to take down data centers

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Rural Ohioans are trying to put the future of hyper-scale data centers on the ballot, and they’re gaining momentum

Apple pies sit on a table before a news conference with Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., on Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus' removal from the "American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act"  of a provision that would require the disclosure of hidden 401(k) fees. Miller was sending the apple pies to the Senate panel's members, each one missing a piece to symbolize "Wall Street's cut." (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)

Wall Street wants to change 401(k) rules

Paul Kiel - ProPublica

It could put your retirement at risk.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks to voters at a town hall at the Elks Lodge 188 on June 7, 2026 in Portland, Maine. Platner is the presumptive Democratic nominee and will face incumbent Sen. Collins (R-ME) for Maine's U.S. Senate seat in the general election. (Photo by Laura Brett/Getty Images)

Platner drops out of Maine Senate race

Alex Galbraith

The candidate suspended his campaign while maintaining assault allegations against him were "not real"

A protester holds a placard with the US President, Donald Trump on it with the symbols of the Soviet Union a sickle and a hammer during the 'Hands Off!' demonstration. Hundreds of demonstrators, including a large number of Americans and Canadians living in London, gathered on the Trafalgar Square to protest against President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the policies of the Trump administration. (Photo by Krisztian Elek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Trump: I'd be the communist GOAT

Alex Galbraith

The president thinks he could create one, big, beautiful classless society

In this handout photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the New York City Fugitive Operations Team conducted targeted enforcement operations resulting in the arrest of a Dominican national on January 28, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Getty Images)

Errors in White House tracker: report

Tatyana Tandanpolie

The Ohio Immigrant Alliance found that data on the White House's "Aliens" site is "inaccurate and unreliable."

Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, speaks onstage during the 2022 Concordia Lexington Summit at Lexington Marriott City Center on April 08, 2022 in Lexington, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images for Concordia)

Gov. Beshear asks "Where's Mitch?"

Alex Galbraith

Rumors have swirled as the senior Republican senator remains hospitalized

(A still from “Spirited Away.” © 2001 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli)

How “Spirited Away” inspired "Avatar"

Melanie McFarland

Nickelodeon's beloved cartoon saga is one of many modern fantasies inspired by Hayao Miyazaki

Ingredients for BLT-inspired Chilled Noodles (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Cappi Thompson / Etienne voss / Allen Chen / amakara / Savany )

Chilled noodles, BLT-style

Ashlie D. Stevens

Tomato, soy, bacon and crisp greens turn rice noodles into a cool, savory summer lunch

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

MAGA media fuels McConnell conspiracies

Sophia Tesfaye

After mocking Joe Biden’s health for years, the GOP has no answer for the Kentucky senator’s mysterious absence

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